Obviously, Linux vendors will not remain untouched by the economic downturn. Novell has already announced a number of lay offs, and the openSUSE Linux division has not been spared. openSUSE board members Pascal Blesser and Bryen Yunashko announced the lay offs.

Based on the last quarterly financial report as posted on OSNews, Novell simply has not been making profit in the Linux realm as of yet: overall, they've been losing millions of dollars on that. As a company, they aren't profitable. And no, Thom Holwerda, revenue is NOT the same as profit

Thus, it shouldn't be too surprising, if they don't have the bank account to fund things for a long period of time that aren't predicted to make a profit, that they'd get rid of those working on such products and services.

Wow, you can tell who the extreme fanbois are, they're the ones that are stupid enough to mark down a post that's applicable and makes sense from a reality/business standpoint, but bugs them that their pet cause isn't doing as great from a reality/business standpoint as they'd really want it to

/me expects this to now get voted down farther, as well as the first post, because of the same stupid fanbois